Feeney v. Spalding

The defendant is a physician and oculist practicing in Portland. In' the summer of 1891, while on a trip to Machias, to visit patients, he stopped over for a short time at Cherryfield. While he was there, the plaintiff, at that time a girl *112seven years old, who had been cross-eyed in one eye since she was a year and a half old, was taken to the defendant by her father for examination and operation if thought desirable.

After an examination by the defendant he performed the usual operation for a difficulty of this kind, bandaged the child’s eye, gave certain directions to the father and…